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Slightly OT Quick Hardware question
We have a small but consistent client that we produce 30 second HD commercials for on a weekly basis. The company sells inventory liquidation and surplus products that never repeat so there’s never a need to archive anything. I want to set up a small desktop in one of our small office spaces just to edit these spots and I was wondering if I could get away with using the on-board raid controllers on a motherboard to run a RAID0 array (and please, I’m not trying to start a RAID0,1,5, etc… debate) or if I should look for a third party controller. Also if I need a third party controller what’s the best bang for my buck? I’ll be installing this on a PC system.
I’m looking for internal arrays here because space is an issue and I already have a few extra drives laying around. And naturally I’d like to keep costs down since this is more of a ‘free up my main edit suites for other work’ sort of issue.
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[Matt Morrison] ” was wondering if I could get away with using the on-board raid controllers on a motherboard to run a RAID0 array “
I almost always use Windows or OSX to drive RAID0: no significant performance issues (RAID0 is light on CPU cycles and memory use), and then there’s the benefit of fault tolerance: if the system goes down, you can take the disks to any other (Windows or OSX) system and recover / work with the data. With the hardware controller, you’d have to take the controller with you – and if it fails, your data is down until it’s replaced.
Other than that, most modern PC mobos have built-in RAID0 support.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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